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The World Environment News is a daily environmental update bringing you all the latest
environmental stories, pictures and video from across the globe,
courtesy of the Reuters news service. if it’s happening in the world of environment, it’s happening in the World Environment News.

Latest News (102 stories)

Date:03-Mar-15Country: UKAuthor: Kyle Plantz Satellite images suggest tropical forests from the Amazon to the Philippines are disappearing at a far more rapid pace than previously thought, a University of Maryland team of forest researchers say.

Date:03-Mar-15Country: THE NETHERLANDSAuthor: Toby Sterling The Dutch government apologized on Monday for ignoring risks posed by earthquakes caused by production of natural gas in the northern province of Groningen.

Date:03-Mar-15Country: CHINAAuthor: Alexandra Harney Could "Under the Dome", Chinese journalist Chai Jing's new documentary about pollution, become China's "Silent Spring", the 1962 book that spurred the development of the U.S. environmental movement?

Date:03-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Eric M. Johnson As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultural hub, officials said on Monday.

Date:03-Mar-15Country: NORWAYAuthor: Alister Doyle The European Union will need radical new policies to reach goals for safeguarding the environment by 2050 after limited progress in curbing pollution and climate change, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Tuesday.

Date:03-Mar-15Country: CHINAAuthor: Ruby Lian and David Stanway China's environmental ministry has ordered local governments in two key steel-producing cities to take tougher action against polluters from the sector as part of efforts to improve air quality.

Date:02-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Victoria Cavaliere A healthy, days-old orca calf has been spotted with a pod of killer whales in the open waters of the U.S. Pacific Northwest, the third baby born to the endangered population this winter, scientists said on Friday.

Date:02-Mar-15Country: UKAuthor: Nina Chestney The British government rejected calls on Sunday to raise taxes on diesel vehicles to reduce air pollution but said it will consider a national network of low-emission zones.

Date:02-Mar-15Country: UKAuthor: Kyle Plantz Doctors should take the lead in supporting political efforts to cut the pace of climate change and encouraging more people to see the problem as a crucial issue for public health, experts say.

Date:02-Mar-15Country: USAAuthor: Carey Gillam An environmental group sued the U.S. government on Friday, accusing regulators of discounting the dangers that a widely used herbicide poses to the declining monarch butterfly population.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Curtis Skinner Nearly all California voters believe the state's water shortage is a serious problem, though they were split on whether environmental protection should be rolled back in response, according to a Field Poll released on Thursday.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Nichola Groom SolarCity Corp on Thursday said it created a $750 million fund to finance about 25,000 residential solar projects, with Google Inc investing nearly half the funding.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: NORWAYAuthor: Alister Doyle A natural cooling of the Pacific Ocean has contributed to slow global warming in the past decade but the pause is unlikely to last much longer, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Marti Maguire Residents across the U.S. South were digging out on Thursday after the latest winter wallop, which dumped more than a half-foot of snow and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands in a region accustomed to milder cold-weather conditions.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: JORDANAuthor: Suleiman al-Khalidi Jordan and Israel signed an agreement to go ahead with a World Bank-sponsored project to build a desalination plant in the Gulf of Aqaba and a pipeline linking the Red Sea with the Dead Sea.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: THE NETHERLANDSAuthor: Susanna Twidale The Netherlands has begun distributing this year's quota of free carbon permits to industry, the Dutch Emissions Authority (NEA) said on Thursday.

Date:27-Feb-15Country: ITALYAuthor: Chris Arsenault Reducing consumer food waste could save the global economy up to $300 billion annually by 2030 as one third of all food produced worldwide ends up being discarded, a research group said on Thursday.

Date:26-Feb-15Country: CANADAAuthor: Andrea Hopkins The coldest February since 1934 has left thousands of Toronto homes without water since a cold snap started two weeks ago and residents in Canada's largest city have been urged to use hair dryers and warm towels to try to thaw frozen pipes.

Date:26-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Courtney Sherwood Oregon's once decimated gray wolf population has rebounded to at least 77 animals, and the wolves are now pairing off and breeding across a wide region, state officials with the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Wednesday.

Date:26-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Dave Sherwood More than 70 vehicles were involved in a major pileup on a snowy highway outside Bangor, Maine, on Wednesday, with at least 17 people injured, two seriously, state police said.

Date:26-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court threw overboard on Wednesday a Florida fisherman's conviction under an evidence-tampering provision of a federal white collar crime law for disposing of undersized red grouper fish while he was under investigation.

Date:25-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Colleen Jenkins Snow and ice turned highways across the South into parking lots on Tuesday and caused schools to close, while hundreds of crashes on slick roads created havoc for commuters.

Date:25-Feb-15Country: JAPANAuthor: Kiyoshi Takenaka The operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it had found a pool of highly contaminated water on the roof of a plant building and that it had probably leaked into the sea through a gutter when it rained.

Date:25-Feb-15Country: SOUTH AFRICAAuthor: Ed Stoddard In the South African bush, elephants are being trained in the art of "bio-detection" to see if they can use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out explosives, landmines and poachers.

Date:25-Feb-15Country: BELGIUMAuthor: Barbara Lewis A European Parliamentary committee on Tuesday backed a new limit on traditional biofuels made from food crops that critics say stoke inflation and do more harm than good to the environment.

Date:25-Feb-15Country: SRI LANKAAuthor: Chris Arsenault Floods and landslides linked to climate change have battered parts of Sri Lanka in the past two years, disrupting food output, but scientists believe a new program to install low-cost weather stations based on open-source technology could help farmers adapt to increasingly wild weather.

Date:20-Feb-15Country: USAAuthor: Mary Wisniewski Bone-chilling cold in the U.S. Midwest shattered records in Chicago on Thursday, closing schools and starting its trudge eastward to an already frozen Boston and New York.